After the recent implementation of acuity circle (AC)-based allocation policies, overall mortality and dropout rates among severely ill liver transplant candidates decreased; however, candidates with ...

MELD 3.0 is superior to other MELD-based scores for long-term prognostication in hospitalized patients with cirrhosis, while GEMA-Na demonstrated even more accurate and better performance. The ...

UAB surgeons have completed Alabama’s first living-donor liver transplant, expanding lifesaving options for patients facing ...

As it has been clearly shown that waiting time is not an accurate marker of waiting list mortality, [27] the “sickest first” policy has been widely adopted for organ allocation, with the aim of ...